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by denton-scratch 2y ago
Damn, he's got two pocket protectors!
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> E.g., "flatpak --user override --unshare=network org.keepassxc.KeePassXC" Happily, flatpak is not part of a default Debian installation.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> not something I would have thought or cared to look up. Wikipedia articles on the operation of EU institutions are awful - barely any better than the official EU documentation. You'd be led to guess that the Wikipedia articles w
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
Perhaps the xenophobic and anti-western Elbonian government would prefer not to allow connections to the USA.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> and where there are still people eating roots I can't imagine a world without potatoes.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
Yeah, that makes sense if Paris is just 15 blocks across, and the Eiffel Tower is a couple of blocks wide, and there's nothing (observable) outside Paris.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
Fair enough; but the article doesn't mention how close together they are. Judging from the diagram, they're separated by an angular distance roughly the same size as the larger structure; so about 3 billion LY.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> 9.2 billion light-years from Earth > cosmological neighbours These structures are more than halfway across the observable Universe. It's ludicrous to claim that they are neighbours.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> but it was very good for the time It's still very good. People keep finding new ways to apply DNS. I was just grumbling about the OTT claim that the DNS will still be there as the last human becomes extinct.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
Have I got this right? Cloudflare serves an SSL certificate for each site that it MITMs, and they fail to revoke it when the site leaves Cloudflare. A site "leaving" Cloudflare means that the site's DNS no longer points to Cl
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> that will probably be around as long as humans exist. My goodness, that's a strong claim to make, about a glue layer in a computing technology that's been around for just 50 years. I mean, arguably the internet as we knew it
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
Indeed, the best type of knowledge comes from primary sources and original research. But those also produce an awful lot of not-knowledge. Wikipedia's approach to sifting the knowledge from the not-knowledge is to prefer reliable sec
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
I was not given local anaesthetic or sedatives. I think they would have offered me sedatives, but the whole deal would have taken 3 or 4 times as long. They might have wanted my pain response to tell them they had missed. The pain was only
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
I'm not a doctor. 1. Veruccas are warts on the soles of the feet. If it's on your hand, it's a wart. 2. Warts are normally skin-coloured, or greyish, or yellowish. See a doctor. [Edit] I think some people refer to some kinds
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
Yes, in my experience. Warts form in the epithelium, and are usually covered by a layer of dead skin cells. I guess they hijack a blood supply from lower layers of the dermis, because black dots on the surface of the wart are blood vessels
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
I received microwave treatment for veruccas. It was administered via a fancy machine, that produced microwaves at the nozzle of a meter-long pipe. The purported mechanism of action was not to destroy the verucca, although that was the immed
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
According to TFA, what may have worked is the tape.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
There are no "lefties" in Congress. Here in the UK, there is definitely a community of vocal old-skool commies that I would refer to as "tankies". George Galloway is probably the most notable tankie politician (recently
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
Ukraine is not fighting because "The West" won't let them stop; they're fighting because they know what will happen to them if they do stop. Russian soldiers are brutal occupiers. Russian officials have been deporting lo
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
They're bombs; you're supposed to drop them from a plane. Ukraine isn't doing a lot of military aviation just now.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
Most ATACMS use GPS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-140_ATACMS#Variants The UK's hot-shit guided artillery shell uses GPS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur Yeah, GPS is serious
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
There might be more important things to write to your local authority about.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> That is the kind of diplomacy would have prevented Russia from invading its neighbours. Really? You believe the Russian claim that it attacks its neighbours because they're mumbling about NATO membership? Russia attacks its neig
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> Type V light wood frame of up to five stories built over a single story of Type I fireproof podium Five stories of timberframe? How is it good to have a fireproof ground floor, if you happen to live on the fifth?
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> something simple, like a one-piece walking stick Something like this? Except that it's not had its growth manipulated, either by tropins or mechanical means (it was coppiced though). https://www.emilyhannah.co.uk/w
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> laser-induced plasma displays that ionize air molecules to create glowing points of light. The New Scientist used to have a column inside the back page called Daedalus. It usually described some kind of weird or wonderful "inventi
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> from all we know now quantum description of the world is the best theory we have Penrose would agree! I think that in The Emperor's New Mind, he sets out a scheme for classifying the quality of different theories, e.g. quantum mec
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
Ouch! the marketing segment is rather annoying.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> Universe is non-deterministic because quantum effects happen randomly. One of Penrose's foundational arguments is that the random element of quantum collapse is deeply unsatisfactory; he thinks it's a defect in the theory tha
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> shouldn't it, by definition, be computable By which definition? Why does anything that is "physically grounded" and "achievable" be computable? Meanwhile, I don't know what "physically grounded"

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